Forty years after Title IX was instituted, women are taking advantage of the opportunity.
Howard Schlossberg said that nearly three and a half million women play high school sports and Title IX is partly responsible. The Act caused schools to equally distribute funds throughout their educational programs without sex bias.
Before Title IX women rarely received athletic scholarships, now over 15,000 student athletes play women’s college basketball according to collegesportsscholarships.com. The 1972 Act doesn’t just allow women to play sports, it gives them the chance to continue their academic career.
Title IX helps women equalize their standing in society by furthering themselves academically. Even in the 1970s women didn’t receive the same rights as a man in the workplace. Now women are seen in authority positions, but it still isn’t level. In a recent business class, my teacher said that women are expensive to hire and men are better candidates for a company.
So even today women aren’t treated the same as men, but it’s moving in the right direction.
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